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The Tucson Festival of Books – Authors Arrive

The SaddleBrooke Community Libraries invite you to read books by authors participating in Tucson’s Festival of Books (TFOB), being held the weekend of March 14-15. This annual event at the University of Arizona campus is one of the largest book festivals in the country. For more information regarding festival times, rules, events and parking, please see their website at tucsonfestivalofbooks.org. This year’s festival headliners are Craig Johnson, Salman Rushdie, Erik Larson and Brad Thor. Celebrities showing up include Edward Burns, Lou Diamond Philips, Tim Matheson, R L Stine and Susan Lucci.

William Kent Krueger is one of the popular authors who will be at the Festival this year. He returns to SaddleBrooke on March 13 as the featured speaker for the author lunch sponsored by The Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries. Whether you attend the lunch or not, you will be happy to know that the SaddleBrooke Community Libraries have all of Krueger’s books! If you’re looking for specific titles, check the library catalog using the easy link on our website: sblibraries.com. The catalog lists books held in the DesertView and SaddleBrooke One Libraries and those books can be reserved. Some titles are also available in Large Print and audiobook formats. Paperback copies of his books can be found at the SaddleBrooke One Library and in the Cholla Library in the MountainView Clubhouse. Paperbacks cannot be reserved, but they don’t have due dates. Lists of Krueger’s books can be found in all three libraries.

If you want to read books by other Fiction authors who will be at the TFOB, we have suggestions to get you ready! Women authors Nikki Erlick, Linda Castillo, Julie Clark, Sarah T. Dubb, Alix Harrow, J A Jance, Becky Masterman, Lydia Millet, Catherine Newman, Anna North, and Thrity Umrigar. Men who write novels include C J Box, Reed Farrel Coleman. Matt Goldman, Nathan Harris, Greg Hurwitz, Craig Johnson, T J Klune, William Kent Krueger, Ward Larsen, T Jefferson Parker, Nick Petrie, Matthew Quirk, Gary Shteyngart, Brad Thor, Luis Alberto Urrea and Jess Walter.

The TFOB also highlights recent titles by Nonfiction authors who will be coming to Tucson. Featured books available in our libraries include: “Firestorm” (LA fires) by Soboroff; “If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies” (AI) by Soares; “The Martians” (Aliens) by Baron; “Air-borne” (Environment) by Zimmer; “Deadwood” by Cozzens; “The Mission” (CIA) by Weiner; “Beast in the Clouds” (Giant Panda) by Holt; “Dinner with King Tut” by Kean; “The Ride” (Paul Revere) by Kennedy; “Demon of Unrest” (Lusitania) by Larson; “Charlie Hustle” (Pete Rose) by O’Brien; and “Aviator and the Showman” (Amelia Earhart) by Shapiro. All of these books can also be reserved through the Library catalog.

If you’re not yet registered to use the Libraries, it’s quick and easy when you stop in at either the DesertView Library or the SaddleBrooke One Library during staffed hours: Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Saturday 9:00 a.m. to noon.

The Libraries would not be able to offer these current books without funding from the Friends of SaddleBrooke Libraries. Please consider becoming a member or making a donation. For more information visit sbfsl.org.